Special dyes are used to dye wool and leather armor. There are many types of dyes in Minecraft. For example, 22 types of dyes are used to dye wool. Thirteen of them can be obtained naturally, nine can be obtained by mixing different shades. But for painting armor there are many more options. The dyes themselves are made by crafting in a workbench or processing in a stove.
Every plant or object is a new color
Hence:
- Cactus - color green
- Rose, poppy, red tulip - the color is red;
- Peony or pink tulip - the color is pink;
- Lapis lazuli is the color of ultramarine;
- Onion - lilac color;
- Bone meal - white color;
- Ink bag - color black;
- White tulip - light gray color;
- Sunflower - yellow color.
How to paint - using dyes
So, to dye wool, you need to place white wool and the desired dye color in your inventory. As a result, you will only be able to dye one block of wool. It is much more profitable to paint a sheep. In this case, you need to bring the dye very close and press RMB. Next, take scissors and trim the animal. The result is two or three times more wool than in the case of crafting in the standard way. In addition, wool tends to grow back. Moreover, it grows back already colored. Having decided to cross two sheep different colors, the cub will turn out to be a completely different color. Using such an algorithm, in new version games you can color and collars of wolves. 
When painting armor in a workbench, we first place the armor element and then the dye in random order. The armor can be repainted. If you haven’t washed it in the boiler first, then the second color will turn out to be an average between the previous one and the desired one.
Another option for using dyes in practice is to use them in the crafting of fireworks, as well as coloring clay and glass.
The color scheme of objects and dyes obtained from these objects and by mixing various dyes.
Craft from dyes
To dye wool, it is placed on a workbench or in your inventory. Only white wool can be dyed. Objects are arranged randomly, the order is not important here. One block is painted.
To get colored wool, you can also dye the sheep using dye. With the dye in your hand, walk up to the sheep as close as possible and right-click on the sheep. When shearing a dyed sheep with scissors, it can yield 1-3 blocks of dyed wool, but when crafted, it yields only one block of colored wool. In later versions, after being sheared, sheep will grow wool back and the player can obtain an infinite number of wool blocks using just one dye. Using dyes of different colors, you can get an infinite amount of wool of all the colors the player needs.
A lamb bred from parents with different colored wool will get a random color from mixing the parents' wool colors, for example a blue and red sheep will produce a purple lamb. In the world of Minecraft, sheep spawn only in white, gray, black, light blue, light gray, less often brown and, very rarely, pink.
You can also use dyes to color the collars of tamed wolves.
For painting, one piece of armor is placed in the crafting grid along with dyes. The order of arrangement is not important. The armor is painted in the most different shades, when crafting, you can add a lot of dyes at once, you can repaint already painted armor, new colors will mix with the previous one and you get a certain average shade. You can wash painted armor in a cauldron, which wastes water.
Possible shades when painting leather armor with dyes.
Since version 12w49a (1.4.6), dyes are used to create fireworks.
From version 13w41a you can paint the glass.
Dyes and colors
Primary colors
Primary colors can be obtained during the game or made from ingredients that must also be obtained first.
| Icon | Name | Extracted from | Gives color | Description |
| Red | obtained when crafting roses, you get two dyes per craft | |||
| Yellow | dandelion craft | |||
| Blue | lapis lazuli ore is mined (4-8 dye per block) | |||
| Green | obtained by roasting a cactus | |||
| Black | from a killed octopus, you don’t have to kill the octopus, but hit it from below, 1-3 dyes fall out | |||
| White | When you kill skeletons, bones drop out | |||
| Cocoa fruit | Brown | cocoa beans falling from jungle trees |
When primary dyes are mixed, secondary dyes are obtained.
| Icon | Name | Mixing | It turns out |
| Rose color + Dandelion yellow | Orange | ||
| Cactus Green + Ultramarine | Turquoise | ||
| Rose color + Ultramarine | Violet | ||
When you play Minecraft, you may come across objects painted in bright and attractive colors. Naturally, at the same time, you may have a completely normal desire - to paint something with your own hands in the color you like. But not everyone knows exactly how to do this. Many people don’t even realize that in this game you can get dyes and use them for their intended purpose. Therefore, it is worth considering in detail how to do it. Also, special attention should be paid to the types of dyes, since they are also different.
Dyes in the game
Everyone who has seen something bright in the game wonders how to make dye in Minecraft, but not everyone finds the answer to this question. And the answer lies on the surface, because most of them are done in the simplest way - by crafting a single item. But here the question arises: what exactly needs to be crafted to get the dye? After all, it can then be used for a variety of purposes, for example, for dyeing wool, armor and other items. This will allow you to make your life much brighter, and at the same time diversify the gameplay. So it's time to learn how to make dye in Minecraft.
Natural dyes
In total, you can paint something in more than twenty colors, but not all of them are simple. The fact is that in the game only thirteen shades can be obtained in nature, the rest need to be obtained more in complex ways. How to make dye in Minecraft from what the game gives you? It's very simple - you only need one workbench, because the paint itself is produced from specific resources. For example, you can get red dye if you craft a poppy or tulip, which can be easily found in the field. Yellow color easy to achieve from dandelion or sunflower. You may find a table that lists all Natural resources, which give you simple dyes, but you don’t have to spoil your impressions and experiment. Perhaps, in addition to interesting colors, you will also receive something that you did not expect at all. However, it is important not to focus solely on the crafting table, because by burning a cactus, for example, you will get a green dye. Minecraft gives you a huge number of possibilities, so use them all.
Composite colors
As mentioned earlier, in nature you can only find materials for the production of thirteen natural dyes. But there are also nine components that simply cannot be done. Seven of them are made only slightly more complex than the basic ones. For example, by mixing bone meal and cactus greens you can create lime coloring. Minecraft, however, offers you two more unique colors that are the hardest to make. If you take the path of experimentation and don’t look at the table, then it will be very difficult for you to choose the right ingredients. After all, to make lilac dye you will need to mix two ready-made shades, purple and pink. What can we say about for which you need to add bone meal to the gray. This is how difficult it is to acquire knowledge of painting in Minecraft. How to make blue dye is one question, but how to achieve brighter and unusual flowers- this is completely different.
How to color an object
It's worth starting with the fact that not all objects in the game can be painted, so you will have to accept the fact that some of your experiments will be unsuccessful. Most shining example the thing that gets dyed all the time is wool. It is obtained from sheep, but is often dyed even before they are shorn; for this purpose, the dye is used directly on the sheep - and its wool takes on a new color. It is worth noting that it will continue to be passed on to her children, and if you cross her with a breed of a different color, you can get something extraordinary. If you need to paint an object specifically, then place it in the workbench along with the dye, and if its color can be changed, then the process will be successful.
Armor painting
We should also consider the process of painting armor. It is important to know that you can only change the color of leather armor, so do not try to recolor others, such as metal or gold. Also note that this feature only appeared in one of the latest versions, so if your client was downloaded a long time ago and has not been updated since then you will not have a chance to change the color of the armor. Well, it’s worth noting that there is much more available for painting armor. more colors than for crafting, so your imagination will have more room to work. In addition, this fact gives hope that in subsequent versions of the game the number of dyes will increase noticeably, and you will be able to decorate your home, as well as the surrounding area, in a more original way, painting walls, fences and even sheep in different colors.
A world not painted in thousands of colors and shades would be very dull. Minecraft can't complain about the lack of colors. This probably explains the small number of objects and blocks that can be painted using dyes. But they exist, and you need to use them. Here are examples of items that can be painted:
- Armor (leather)
- Wolf collar
- Star (for fireworks)
Wool dyeing
There are 13 natural and 9 mixed dyes in Minecraft. You will read in detail about colors below, and now in more detail about the use of dyes. The main use of “pigments” is in wool coloring. If the wolf collar or saddle is not decorated, it will not make you very cold or hot. But multi-colored wool may be useful to you in a huge number cases. It’s hard to imagine implementing design projects in Minecraft without taking advantage of the possibilities offered by dyes.
To dye wool, and other items from the list, it, like the dye, is placed in a crafting grid. The order of the elements is not important. However, you can only dye white wool in Minecraft (interestingly, even in White color). In one approach, you can color only one block, and this is a negative aspect of this method. It makes more sense to do things differently.
Wool can be obtained not only by crafting, but also by shearing sheep. Not only do sheep produce 2-3 times more of it at a time than craft, but the dye is also used much more efficiently. The fact is that sheep do not remain bald forever after being sheared. Their fur grows back. Moreover, the color in which you once painted the animal. Do you understand what the profit is? By spending one unit of dye in Minecraft, you can get an almost unlimited amount of wool.
But that is not all. Having painted future mom and dad, a sheep and a ram, in different colors, you will get a lamb of the color that you would get if you mixed the parent colors separately. Needless to say, the profit is fabulous. Here it would also be useful to note that in the natural conditions of Minecraft you can meet, in addition to white sheep, also gray, black, pink and brown. This is useful to know so as not to waste dye again. Well, to color this useful animal, you need to take the dye in your hand and right-click on the sheep. Just come closer to it so as not to spray the substance.
Painting other items
Leather armor in Minecraft can be colored with v. 12w34a. To dye, you should randomly place one unit of armor and one or more dyes in the grid. There are several points here:
- The number of colors is much larger than the basic ones, since you can paint already painted armor. That is, the result always turns out to be somewhat average.
- The ability to use many dyes at once allows you to quickly get the desired result.
- Colored armor in Minecraft can be washed in a cauldron of water.
It is very useful to use dyes when crafting fireworks. This way you can make very bright and colorful fireworks. And baked clay is an excellent (durable and beautiful) alternative to wool. Like wool, it can achieve a wide variety of design goals. True, the sheep product, as has been shown and proven, is more profitable to use, since it is easier to make.
Types of Dyes
Well, now more about the “pigments” themselves. Colors in Minecraft are primary, secondary and tertiary. Here are the primary dyes (there are thirteen of them), as well as the ingredients from which they can be made or obtained.
Type– dye
Where to look– extract in a mine, in the desert, under water, do it yourself
Foldability– yes (64)
Description and characteristics:
You've probably often noticed that players use wool of unusual colors, and sometimes wear rather bright leather armor: pink, purple or even blue? Of course they did! And you're probably wondering how you can achieve the same result? And here everything is simple - you just need to find out how to make dye in Minecraft.
IN in this case You should turn directly to the gifts of nature: we put all the significant things at home and run to the world of Minecraft for flowers! To get dyes, flowers need to be placed in the left cell of the workbench, and then on the right we will get the necessary resources.
So, what you will need to collect - roses, dandelions - is in the standard biome. But in the desert, look for cacti, since we will use them to make green dyes in Minecraft.
To get green dye, you will need to literally bake cacti in an oven, then as a result you will get the source for the green color.
Also, when it starts to get dark, we pick up a sword. Better yet, use a bow, and fearlessly go fight the skeletons. As a drop, they always drop bones, from which you can get bone meal, which is used not only as a plant growth accelerator, but also as a white dye.
So, how to make a black dye in Minecraft? In this case, you need to go straight to the water, quite interesting mobs live there - squids, from which the ink sac drops, which is what we need.
What’s interesting: you don’t have to kill the octopus, that is, the squid, you can swim up to it from below and hit it from there, then you can get from 1 to 3 bags as a drop.
How is blue dye made in Minecraft? I think most attentive players have already guessed: it can be filled with a pickaxe in the mine, and it is lapis lazuli.
So, let's watch a very useful minecraft video together: how to make dyes with your own hands:
As you can see, there is nothing complicated in such a matter as making dyes in Minecraft.
True, let's clarify: now we have considered the primary, that is, primary colors, but to get secondary colors, you will just need to combine two sources.
Let's look at the table to see how you can get this: 
And here are the tertiary shades for you:
So, we figured out how to make dye in Minecraft, now let's talk about some ways to use it.
IN latest versions The game has the ability to paint a sheep: you simply point at the mob and right-click (right mouse button). Why do this? We explain: you will spend 1 dye on one sheep, but when shearing with scissors you can get as many as two blocks of dyed wool. That is, we give one, but we get two. Profitable? Aw, of course! And keep in mind that after a while the sheep will grow back again, so over time you will not have a shortage of dyed wool!
Sweetie in painted armor
Also, if you dye another sheep, say, blue, and then “marry” them, you will end up with a cute purple lamb.
In addition, you can use dyes to tint baked clay, as well as glass, which will give you the opportunity to create an extraordinary home that no one else will have! Of course, it’s not worth talking about the fact that painting armor is possible!
So, in this way, knowing how to make dye in Minecraft is very useful, as you have seen!
